| Date | Centennial Theatre
2300 Londsdale Avenue
North Vancouver
Tel (604) 984-4484 | Pacific Cinématheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver | H. R. McMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver |
Fri
Jan
22 | 7:30 pm (doors 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Festival Opening Evening, presented by BCMC”, with VIMFF 2010 Photo Competition Awards and Exhibition opening; Julie and Colin Angus in “Rowed Trip - A journey from Scotland to Syria by Oar”, showcasing images and film from their 7200 km odyssey from Scotland to Syria through 13 countries; and screening of other selected festival films: Finding Farley (Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison with their 2-year old son Zev trace the footsteps of writer Farley Mowat - 5000 km trip of trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Canadian prairies to the Maritimes); INCANtations (film maker Alison Teal Blehert-Koehn adventure travels to the Andes to meet with the Shamanic tribes). | | |
Sat
Jan
23 | 3:00 pm
VIMFF “Film Makers Seminar” featuring short presentations by Pat Morrow, Bryan Smith and other mountain film makers on various challenges of making mountain films.
7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Ski Evening”, with legendary West Coast skier and author John Baldwin in “Ski Wild - Ski Mountaineering in the Coast Mountains“; Dave Dornian’s “Skimo – the World of Ski Mountaineering Competition” live presentation on the sport as it is emerging in Canada under the influence of a long Alpine tradition; and other VIMFF films filled with snow: White Noise (Dominique Perret’s artsy free skiing film from Alaska filled with amazing powder lines); Mt. Blanc in a Day (Canada’s Greg Hill climbs up Mt. Blanc and skis down an untracked North Face of the biggest hill in Europe); Virtuous and Pure Traverse (5-day ski traverse through the wilderness of the Southern Selkirs of BC, featuring injuries, illness, bad weather and an avalanche); Expedition Manaslu (Benedikt Böhm and Sebastian Haag from Germany set out to ski the 8163m high Manaslu on an expedition full of unpredictable changes and thin air); Deep.Shinsetsu (short film capturing a typical ski day atmosphere in the mountains of Japan). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Paddle Sports Show” with Angela Bueckert’s “The Crossing Borders Expedition” live presentation on her 85-day paddling trip from the Galiano Island to Alaska along the BC Coast; Chris Cooper presenting “The British Isles by Canoe Spirit of the People” – an epic multi season project to paddle the British coastline over the past two years; and other paddling films ‘guaranteed to keep you wet’ ™©: Lucky 13 (adrenalin-fused kayakers in search of a wild variety of whitewater features within their beloved West Kootenay playground of British Columbia); Rowing the Atlantic (story of Roz Savage’s journey from an ordinary career woman to an adventurer, facing the most intimidating challenge of her life - rowing 1700 km across the Atlantic Ocean); Into Perpetual Ice (five international kayakers travel to the whitewaters of Greenland in search of white gold); Africa Revolutions Tour (action-packed flick from the crocodile infested White Nile in Uganda, through big water first descents throughout Madagascar, to the highest documented descent of the Zambezi).
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Sun
Jan
24 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Eiger Nordwand Show” with Chic Scott live “Filming the Eiger Sanction” – a look behind the scenes of filming the Hollywood spy thriller ‘The Eiger Sanction’ starring Clint Eastwood; and screening of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ Eiger Challenge (as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, "the world's greatest living explorer", sets out to climb the North Face of the Eiger). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Polish Mountain Film Show”, presented by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Vancouver; with Polish-Canadian legendary adventurer Peter Chrzanowski and his film Sacred Flight on flying in the indigenous lands of Columbia; El Camino Baby (film maker and adventurer Marek Klonowski and his young family cycle the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail in Spain); Sisters of Himalaya (three Polish climbers organize winter climbing training camp for 12 young Nepali women). |
Mon
Jan
25 | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Retro Walls” Evening with Pat Morrow’s “Conrad Kain – The Prince of Canadian Mountain Guides” audio visual show with images of Kain in action, and photos of modern climbers on some of Kain’s striking mountains; Anders Ourom in “Climbing at Squamish in the 1970s - From Pitons to Friends”, a lighthearted live presentation about climbers and climbs at Canada's rainiest cliff during the 1970s; and other festival films: Luxury Liner (legendary US rock climbers Earl Wiggins, Ed Webster and Bryan Becker return after 30 years to Indian Creek’s classic Supercrack to share memories and climb it once again); Lines of Flight (artsy short film evoking the unusual, captivating and even disturbing sensations of free soloing and applying them to questions about the quality of modern life in the northern English Pennines). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Earth Alive” evening with presentation and film Terra Antarctica by world class explorer and environmentalist Jon Bowermaster. |
Tue
Jan
26 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Stein Valley Evening” with Gordon White’s “Stein Valley: Stories & Lessons from BC’s Wilderness Classroom” live presentation on one of the most treasured areas of BC; presentations of the Vancouver Waldorf School students from their recent trip to the area; and other films: Fearless (life story of top notch Canadian adventurer and mountaineer Martyn Williams who has arrived to the crossroads of his life); Taiga Quest (travelling filmmaker Yannick Daoudi embarks on a quest into the remote and pristine Siberian Taïga and completes a 1000-km loop in 5 weeks, using only muscle-power). | | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “World Travels on Bikes” evening with Sarah Lusina and Tom Furst in “Gusts and Dulces – A Couple’s Tour of South America by Bicycle” live show packed with stories from their recent cycling trip from Patagonia to Vancouver; and other films: The Cross Canada Project (Canada’s Mike Beauchamp designs and builds a weatherproof camera and captures an emotional journey as he attempts to ride his bicycle over 7000 km from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean); Take a Seat (UK’s Dominic Gill rides his tandem bike from Alaska to Patagonia, taking various hitch hikers along the way, and finishing the trip of his lifetime 2 years later). |
Wed
Jan
27 | 1:30 pm (admission by donation)
VIMFF “Youth Community Program” with Gordon White’s “Stein Valley: Stories & Lessons from BC’s Wilderness Classroom” live presentation for the North Shore school students 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Mountain Biking Evening, presented by Norco” – “Ride and Reach with Ryan Leech” combining a live, on-stage, trials demonstration, video clips from Ryan’s best films and a reflective speech about his progression as a world class trials rider; Bjorn Enga alive with “Radical Films - 12 Years of Making Kranked” sharing some insight from being at the forefront of mountain bike film making; and screening of other festival biking films: Bro vs. Mnt (the encounters of a “bro” riding his bike on the mountainous trails across BC through the Interior, the Lower Mainland and the North Shore of Vancouver, hitting all of his favourite riding spots along the way); Freedom Riders (story of a small, core group of riders who evolved from covertly building rough and unsustainable trails to building some of the best freeride trails in the US); The Argentine Project (3 friends taking a trip and hoping to create a mountain bike flick with one bike, 2 cameras… and a little Spanish). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
VIMFF “Alpine Climbing Evening” with Canada’s top alpine climber Maxime Turgeon in “Seeking Simplicity” -
with only his bike and a pair of climbing shoes Maxime traveled the Northern Alps climbing over 18 days up eight of the greatest faces in the Alps, cycling from peak to peak and soloing each climb; and other films: Lightning Strike - Arwa Tower (story of two teams of climbers including Stefan Siegrist and Ines Papert, who in the early summer of 2007 take to the Arwa Tower, a wonderful 6,000m peak in the Northern Indian Garhwal-Himalaya); Lost Tower (New Zealanders Jo Kippax and Sean Waters head to the Northern Patagonian Icecap to traverse it, climb the tower and explore their way back to civilization via the glaciers and rivers); Continuum Project: Nepal (Ines Papert and Cory Richards as they blitz Kwangde Shar peak in Nepal). | |
Thu
Jan
28 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Great World Adventures” with Cedar Wright’s “Vertical Carnival” - a multimedia show on climbing, high-lining and surviving in Yosemite and other places; Baffin Babes – “80 days on skis in the arctic” live show with four Scandinavian girls experiencing a fabulous winter 1200 km long adventure on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic; and other festival films: Continuum Project – Zion (Rob Pizem and Mike Anderson crush brawny off-widths and delicate face climbing in Zion); Samsara (Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to attempt a first ascent of a 2200 m rock and ice route in the heart of the lofty, knife-sharp Vindhya Mountains in India); Unfinished Business (follow Jeremy Samson, Chief Mountain Architect, as he consults with Cape Town’s extreme athletes in action who use and are affected by the Table Mountain in a quest to build a true peak on the top of it); Tim Emmett - Under the Eye of the Jackdaw (Britain’s Tim Emmett and a fellow climber make a desperate first free ascent of a 300 m overhanging ice wall in Fressiniere in the French Alps, and try to BASE jump off the top). | 7:30 pm (doors at 7pm)
VIMFF “Paragliding Evening” with Canadian paragliding ex-champ Alex Raymont’s “Walking the Clouds” live presentation about his life as a world-class paraglider pilot; as well as other films on paragliding: Birdman of the Karamoram (legendary paragliding pilot John Silvester takes film maker Alun Hughes on the tandem flight in the high ranges of Pakistan); Red Bull X Alps 2009 (thirty athletes from 23 different nations race through the Alps from Salzburg, Austria to Monaco on the Mediterranean coast, travelling by foot or flying with a paraglider alone). | |
Fri
Jan
29 | 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
VIMFF “Finale, presented by Petzl” with VIMFF 2010 Film Awards; Sonnie Trotter’s live presentation of “Letting Go of Control” multimedia show on climbing dangerous trad ascents; Will Stanhope live in “Youthful Exuberance - freeclimbing from Squamish to Patagonia” highlighting Will’s recent bold climbs; and other VIMFF films: Hey Presto (world class climber Sonnie Trotter teams up with world class belayer Cory Richards to take on the Squamish classic, ‘Presto’); Waypoint Namibia (a small team of rock climbers headed by Majka Burhardt depart for Namibia to find a way up an unexplored face, and to find a way into a deeper understanding of Southern Africa); Welsh Connection – Tim Emmett (British hot shot Timmy Emmett tries and climbs hair raising R routes on the Pembroke cliff in Wales); Slate Monkeys (climbers Matt Segal, Hazel Findlay and Johnny Dawes take it in turn to crimp, palm, squirm and wriggle their way up the esoteric route, Gin Palace, in the disused Welsh slate quarries). | | |
Ticket Information
VIMFF Tickets will be $17 in advance and $19 at the door for each event, unless otherwise posted. VIMFF Packages:
1. 2 Ticket voucher for 2 separate shows: $27
2. 3 Ticket voucher for 3 separate shows: $37 Advanced tickets will be available online at www.vimff.org, and at the Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, tel (604) 984-4484. |
